<p>In a significant development, the Jammu and Kashmir government has asked all the schools in the Valley to install a signboard of standard design with the national flag in the background.</p>.<p>A local English daily reported that the school education department has directed heads of all institutions to adopt a “grey and white colour scheme” for government school buildings besides installing “a signboard of standard design with tricolour of national flag in the background.”</p>.<p>A deputy director rank officer in the department has been appointed to monitor the district wise progress of schools in adoption of the colour shades and installation of signboards while the activity has to be completed by April 30 and the weekly report has to be submitted to the administrative department.</p>.<p>A senior official in the department said that a format for the schools to submit the details of the progress has already been devised. “The initiative was started in February this year and most of the schools have started working on it,” he said and added the department is seriously monitoring its progress.</p>.<p>Earlier in January, the Union Territory government had made hoisting of the tricolour must for all government buildings on the eve of Republic Day.</p>.<p>Till the abrogation of J&K’s special status under Article 370 in August 2019, the erstwhile state had its own flag besides the national flag. The red flag with a plough and three stripes is no longer in use. J&K had adopted a separate constitution in 1956, under which it was permitted to fly its own flag till August 2019.</p>
<p>In a significant development, the Jammu and Kashmir government has asked all the schools in the Valley to install a signboard of standard design with the national flag in the background.</p>.<p>A local English daily reported that the school education department has directed heads of all institutions to adopt a “grey and white colour scheme” for government school buildings besides installing “a signboard of standard design with tricolour of national flag in the background.”</p>.<p>A deputy director rank officer in the department has been appointed to monitor the district wise progress of schools in adoption of the colour shades and installation of signboards while the activity has to be completed by April 30 and the weekly report has to be submitted to the administrative department.</p>.<p>A senior official in the department said that a format for the schools to submit the details of the progress has already been devised. “The initiative was started in February this year and most of the schools have started working on it,” he said and added the department is seriously monitoring its progress.</p>.<p>Earlier in January, the Union Territory government had made hoisting of the tricolour must for all government buildings on the eve of Republic Day.</p>.<p>Till the abrogation of J&K’s special status under Article 370 in August 2019, the erstwhile state had its own flag besides the national flag. The red flag with a plough and three stripes is no longer in use. J&K had adopted a separate constitution in 1956, under which it was permitted to fly its own flag till August 2019.</p>
